5 ideas
8510 | 'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC] |
8508 | A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC] |
8509 | A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC] |
21516 | We want certainty in order achieve secure results for action [Dewey] |
8338 | A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation [Strawson,G] |